![]() For some, the moment is fleeting and wakefulness settles in as it should. It’s that moment when you wake up from a surprise nap and don’t know where you are. Sleep inertia is the transitional state between sleep and wakefulness. But then it’s time to wake up and I just can’t. That is my privilege: being able to sleep for hours at a time, entirely undisturbed. I’ve never felt more at home than when I went to Japan in 2019 and saw commuters sleeping standing up on the train. I can sleep quite literally anywhere, including in the aforementioned lectures. Any lecture before 10am was not attended by me.Īll this is to say that I can’t wake up. ![]() This cycle continued until I left home and moved to Auckland for university, where there was no one to wake me up. Whatever it was, there was no such thing as an early night, and no such thing as an early rise. ![]() The other nights we spent hours acting out scenes from Footloose in the dark (my sister’s idea of fun) or reading silently under the covers until 1am (my idea of fun). At least twice a week we fell asleep to the bone-trembling vibrations of Kanye West’s The College Dropout album. When I was 10 I shared a room with my older sister and our room shared a wall with our 19-year-old brother’s room. The breathless gasp and blinding sensation of Dad aggressively opening the bedroom door and turning on the light was a weekly baptism. Waking up at 7:30 for Sunday mass? We needn’t have gone to church at all. Waking up at 7:45 for Saturday rugby? Struggle. Every single morning of my life, from as early as I can remember, has been a struggle.
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